So many have been burned by roaming - IT.Branschen

So here below vacation times, many people spend days on a sunny beach abroad. But even on the beach are also mobile phone, which is increasingly being used to access and keep updated, even on holiday. It can be an expensive business.

Class=”paragraphIntro”> A new survey as flight comparison site Skyscanner has conducted among its customers around the world show that as many as one in three holidaymakers have ever suffered an unexpectedly high cell phone bill after the holidays. Among the 1,500 respondents in the survey, 38 percent of the mobile phone bill was higher than they had anticipated. Nathalie Stjernfeldt, Press Officer at Skyscanner says that these type of surprises also affect the choices made for the trip.

– Something we see is that there are a greater interest in choosing hotels that offer wireless internet in the rooms, and it is also looking increasingly there are so-called wifi hotspots in town or in libraries and the like, says Nathalie Stjernfeldt.

The reason for the high mobile phone bills are not surprisingly the disputed roaming charges, which all too often does data traffic is expensive for international travelers. 16 percent of respondents say they received a bill of over $ 1 000, and seven percent of the respondents have had to pay over 2500 crowns after the holidays. Among the affected states 86 percent said they used the internet on mobile phones up to 30 minutes per day.

However there hope that future vacationers to avoid similar surprises because the EU is planning measures to further expose data costs between the various operators. Such a change will at the earliest be implemented next year, in conjunction with the annual reduction in maxtaket for roaming charges. So do not worry, the internet is not a fly, even on holidays.